tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36254398593905993632009-06-30T14:20:04.327-07:00Chloe's a gal usually in some kind of trouble--the supernatural kind...Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745394055448870711noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625439859390599363.post-27184689154648507192009-05-15T10:22:00.000-07:002009-05-15T10:30:38.199-07:00

Hey guys, Chloe here! Just wanted to let you know about a few updates in my life. Oh course, I've been planning for my wedding between all the demons and supernatural Bads chasing me around. But that's just everyday life here in New Salem!I have my own Myspace page now. It's at http://www.myspace.com/chloefiles I also have two video trailers for both my adventures I think you'll really like. You

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Hey Guys, Chloe here. Just want to tell you all that my new adventure is now available exclusively from Golden Perils Presshttp://www.lulu.com/goldenperilsThe Chloe Files #2: Sliver of Darkness by Howard HopkinsWho knows what crimes cripple the minds of the guilty?Brant Lamont’s acting career was on a downhill slide, then one night after a performance he vanished. Was he dead? Alive? Forty years

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Hi guys, Chloe here. My new supernatural adventure, Sliver of Darkness, will be coming out soon. Here's a preview of the cover. --Chlo

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Hi all, Chlo here. Just thought I would update you on things since it had been a while. My transcriber told me the second half of my short adventure The Trouble with Flappers is now finished. For those of you who don't know, the first half was published as an Amazon Short last year and the complete story will appear in the next Chloe Files novel, Silver of Darkness, which is nearing completion.

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Hi all, Chlo here. Just thought I would update you on things since it had been a while. My transcriber told me the second half of my short adventure The Trouble with Flappers is now finished. For those of you who don't know, the first half was published as an Amazon Short last year and the complete story will appear in the next Chloe Files novel, Silver of Darkness, which is nearing completion.

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THE CHLOE FILES #1: Ashes to AshesHey, guys, Chloe, here. Just wanted you to know my inaugural adventure kicking Evil's butt is now available at Barnes & Noble, Borders and other fine online stores. Here's my blurb...A silver locket said to have belonged to Joan of Arc and a children's nursery rhyme...A 600-year-old monkey with an attitude and a mysterious supernatural symbol on a Caller ID box.

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Hi guys, Chloe here. Thought I'd give you a preview of my upcoming adventure Silver of Darkness.ONE: COLOR MY WORLD2:00am…I woke up in black and white.And naked.Ok, you’re probably thinking I should have known better than to go back to sleeping in the nude after just dealing with that plague-spreading demon a few weeks ago and maybe you’re right. But I’m comfortable that way and it’s force of

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Ok, guys, you can now order the first Chloe Files novel, Ashes to Ashes, from GP Press exclusively at:http://www.lulu.com/goldenperilsIn about 6-8 weeks it'll be at Amazon and everywhere.And I think my next adventure will be called Sliver of Darkness. You see, it's about this old time radio show actor who just happened to show up as a ghost in New Salem and cause some trouble. Pretty spooky stuff

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Hey, guys, Chloe here. Just wanted to let you all know I have been hard at work helping with my first Chloe Files novel, Ashes to Ashes, which is now available from Golden Perils Press exclusively, but will be hitting Amazon and other online bookstores in about six weeks. We've completely reedited, corrected and expanded it for publication. It also includes a new article about me, and some hints

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Where in the World is Arlo Grimm: EpilogueI’d been awake most of the night and felt pretty much like hell. I spent most of my time at the hospital, half-dozing occasionally in the chair beside Arly’s bed, but each time I even started to drift off I’d jerk awake with latent visions of what had happened in the church and a name on my lips: Angelique Ficatier.Of course, before going to the hospital,

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Where in the World is Arlo Grimm Part 37: Like a Rat Out of HellThe shrieking of the rats was tearing apart whatever was left of my nerves. Nausea coursed through my belly and I wanted to vomit. Pain lashed at every muscle, every fiber. Rats snapped at my legs and the exposed flesh of my sides. One hand hit the altar floor and they nipped at my fingers. Blood ran from small wounds. Pain radiated

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Where in the World is Arlo Grimm Part 36: We All Fall DownSomething worse and something deadly. The thing was trying to stop me from getting close enough to use the locket and I knew damn well it probably could. I might be special in some way, like Arly, but Lansing had told me pretty much point blank I wasn’t going to be special enough to beat this thing on my own. I was throwing away my life. I

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Where in the World is Arlo Grimm Part 35: Enter Stage Left, Praetallious“What the hell is up with that?” I yelled, the last of my nerve deserting me. Now I was really scared and the urge to run grew almost overwhelming. Bob’s incessant shrieking from the pew didn’t help things much. I wanted to throw something at him.Lansing looked spellbound with terror. A mean part of me briefly thought she

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Where in the World is Arlo Grimm Part 34: Sea of HostilityShe was me.Or at least the spitting image of me as I had looked at about fifteen, except for the black-green patches and sickly pallor. The Easter dress had changed to jeans with torn knees and a loose t-shirt.“You never tried to find me, Chloe,” me said. I said. I mean…I don’t know what I meant, because fear was suddenly swirling with

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Where in the World is Arlo Grimm Part 33: Plaguing Me, Plaguing YouShe was standing on the altar, the thing that looked like my sister. The Easter dress she wore was soiled, its powdery blue and yellow faded, as if it had aged all those years since I’d last seen Pat wearing it, while the little girl hadn’t. Her eyes…her eyes were different. They weren’t Pat’s. They shimmered with anti-light and

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Hey everyone, Chlo here. Taking a week or two off for the holidays—and if you read GRIMM you know the trouble I got into last Christmas, so wish me luck for this year. I’ll be back soon with more Chloe Files and I hope you all ordered your copies of GRIMM for gifts :) So have a Merry one and a hauntingly fantastic New Years. And watch out for those Christmas ghosts…Chloe

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Where in the World is Arlo Grimm Part 32: The Discovery“Arly!” I froze, my entire body shuddering with relief and horror at the same time.The room was a large basement of some sort, walls dripping with moisture and coated with moss and some snaking branches that had wedged through cracks in the stone over time. Torches burned on the wall.Arly was in the far corner, partially sitting, legs curled

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Where in the World is Arlo Grimm Part 31: Follow the Devil Brick RoadI took a few steps downward, then paused, a wave of apprehension washing through me. What if Arly was at the end of wherever this stairway led…more to the point, what if he was dead?“He’s not dead…” Lansing said behind me and I turned to look back at her, my surprise showing on my face.“How did you know what I was—”Pixie Sticks

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Where in the World is Arlo Grimm Part 30: Genie Out of the Bottle“Jesus!” I blurted, feeling a little like a fool, but I think I mentioned my nerves felt as tight as one of my g-strings.On the altar, Genie Lansing gave me that smug little smile of hers and took the two steps down to the aisle floor. I got the impression she didn’t want to stay on altar because she gave it a backward glance and a

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Hey guys, Chloe here. Just wanted to let you know the latest. My separate Chloe Files story, The Trouble with Flappers, is now available at Amazon for only .49 cents. This is part one of a two-parter. It invovles this case where I ran into this creepy house stuck back in the 1920s. Of course, it has some ghosts and a murder, too! It was pretty damn spooky, lemme tell ya. You can get it from

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Part 29: Say Twenty Hail Chloes…then Run Like Hell.I was right about flickering. Not being a good sign, I mean. Because when I entered St. Bosco’s torches in wall sconces illuminated a room in a dreadful state of disrepair, far more decrepit than the church’s exterior and grounds. But that was secondary to the fact that no churches I knew of used torches anymore. Even the Catholics had entered

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Where in the World is Arlo Grimm Part 28: ArrivalThe fact that I had no idea what I was going to do if I found Arly and that demon girl at St. Bosco’s should have given me pause.But it didn’t.I think I told you Arly calls me impulsive, that I tend to charge into things without spending a lot of time thinking about them beforehand. This was going to be another one of those times.Even so, I

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Where in the World is Arlo Grimm Part 27: Bless Me for I Have Sinned…a LotI was surprised the church wasn’t locked, but in New Salem easy access was probably a good thing.The interior was gloomy, gray light diffusing through the stained glass windows of various Saints. Some kind of odd aroma permeated the place, flowery, but mixed with body odor, varnish and maybe a little bit of flame broiled

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Hey, your girl Chloe here. I just wanted to take a few minutes away from our story to let you know couple things. We're getting near the close of our first adventure and if you've all stuck with me this long I can promise you there's plenty more coming up, which I'll get to in a sec.I'd like you all to give some serious thought to picking up a copy of GRIMM by Howard Hopkins. Not only because it

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Where in the World is Arlo Grimm Part 26 Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it’s Off to Church We Go…The day had gotten even more gray by the time I showered, pulled my hair back into a pony tail and got my heart out of my throat. I pulled on a pair of jeans and a blue sweater, made sure Puddin’ Head’s dish was full—because, God knew, I’d hear about it later if I forgot to make sure His Majesty went an hour or two

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